Recently, a simple ugprade wreaked havoc on my old blog.
I didn't even notice, to be honest- until I did a trivial search for my ebtables writeup from 2017, and the search looped back upon itself until it recused to the point of exhaustion.
Stef Dawson, a grea developer with TextPattern, hopp...
It’s 2025, so this shouldn’t happen – but it still does.
I’m doing some work on migrating a failed project of sorts- it isn’t a complete failure- but it didn’t accomplish what the goals were, and right now it’s in a holding stasis.. however, needs to be made stable, and trustworthy before other...
Since I haven’t uploaded any images since 2018, I can’t tell you specifically when the images subsystem broke – but I discovered it wasn’t working today.
>describe prefix_txp_image;
| Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
| id | int(11) | NO | 0 |
… uh, that’s not right....
Despite moving most of my place-of-work’s computing into the cloud, I still rent an ancient computer for less than $1/day to host several of my projects, including this blog.
It’s been pretty stable, but since I have been gently pushing the hardware, the network card has been failing and starting...
Devuan update to Daedalus didn’t go without a few minor bumps; all services current.
It’s been several years since I’ve been active here; my blog has found it’s way into an extended hiatus for years at times.
Before social media was so popular (this from of my blog dates back to 2003!), we used to do our own thing and assume that others would find a way to syndicate it if they wer...